The Martyrs of Uganda (HT: Kairos Journal)

The Kairos Journal is a site you need to know about, and if you are a minister, visit regularly. Their mission statement is: Equipping and supporting pastors and church leaders as they strive to transform the moral conscience of the culture and restore the prophetic voice of the Church. Here's an excellent article from their resources.

The Martyrs of Uganda (1885 – 1887)

The faces of the hundred executioners were painted black and red. Dressed in animal skins and martial headdresses, they danced and sang, “Today the kinsfolk of these children will weep.” But the Christians, bound hand and foot and wrapped in bundles of reeds, calmly replied, “This is the place whence we shall go to see Jesus Christ. In one moment we shall see Him.”¹ Wood was stacked upon them and lit; the flames rose in a circle as over a burning hut and quickly consumed them. Their offence: refusing to engage in sodomy with the king.